Everything posted by Fromgotowoewodin
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POSTGAME: Rd 19 vs Adelaide
This is where Iām at too, weāre clearly not better than 2021, this will be our lowest finish of the 3 years and weāve already dropped 6 games this year with 5 to play (vs 4 and a draw in 2021, and 6 in 2022). Leaking more goals although this could be due to playing a more open style. Forward line is still a work in progress (sadly 2 years after Flag). Best 22 with Oliver, Fritsch, Petty back might get us to where we need to be with a fwd line of JVR, Fritsch, Melksham and a Gawndy as the tall. Problem is weāre not going to be able to line up like that until Fritta is playing which may not be before the first final - not ideal. It may well work but itās got the air of a heist movie to it where it looks like theyāre all going to jail until someone turns up at the last minute and makes the whole thing come together, hopefully Fritta can be our pocket ace or fixer or whatever and we can slip out with the cup. Some are very confident itās all going to come together, 40 years of MFCSS has me less confident but buckle up, at least weāve booked a ticket to the show.
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POSTGAME: Rd 19 vs Adelaide
So you know itās not easy, 350+ afl goals donāt come by accident. No oneās saying heās not droppable, but even less than 100% fit heās the best answer weāve got right now and heās giving it a crack. If the club thought Schache could do the job he wouldāve been tried more than 1 game this year.
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POSTGAME: Rd 19 vs Adelaide
Fair to say BBB hasnāt been at his best since coming back in, but he takes heat off JVR, runs good patterns, creates space and brings the ball to ground. Will he be best 22 come finals? Maybe not, but āsoftā? Unless youāve kicked 3 in an AFL flag maybe show some respect to a premiership player
- GAMEDAY: Rd 19 vs Adelaide
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GAMEDAY: Rd 19 vs Adelaide
Agree to disagree it is then. Do we āneedā to go into finals where we need to win 3 or 4 in a row against the best teams in the comp in good solid winning form? Yeh maybe not but I donāt like going in on a couple of losses would much prefer to come in hot. Do we āneedā Clarry to win those 3/4 games in a row? No we can probably do it without him but Iād like our chances much better if heās out there.
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GAMEDAY: Rd 19 vs Adelaide
Of course it counts, but beating the lions and then losing to a couple of bottom 8 teams in the lead in to finals isnāt intimidating anyone. Footy is a mental sport as well as a skill and tactics contest. Are the pies miles ahead? No, but if you donāt think teams are gonna be worried sitting a couple of goals in front of them with a quarter to go I donāt know what to tell you.. winning builds belief and I donāt think you can go into the finals on patchy form and flick a switch, I want to see solid wins from here on
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GAMEDAY: Rd 19 vs Adelaide
Heās a bit colourful here but I agree with his main point, itās time to start putting convincing wins together - donāt need to be 100pt smashings but if weāre going all the way we shouldnāt lose a game from here. Today should be a straightforward 30+ point, 4-quarter win. Itās fine to say weāre locked in the top 4 or whatever but I think youāve gotta start showing the others that youāre the real deal - wins are good but running out 4 quarters and not letting opponents have a sniff means when youāre up in a final theyāre thinking āthese bastards donāt stop runningā not ātheyāll let us back in here if we keep pressingā.
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PREGAME: Rd 19 vs Adelaide
Not sure about personal agendas or anything hitting the fan, my original post on this was a guess as to a couple of players I thought it might be, then after I posted I decided I wasnāt comfortable speculating on the personal character of people I donāt know so I edited the post to reflect that. Anyone else is free to do as they please.
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PREGAME: Rd 19 vs Adelaide
Lol. To clarify for you, I donāt mean itās speculation as to whether there is a player who you think is a [censored] to you and the rest of the cheer squad, I mean I donāt think itās worth the rest of us trying to work out who it is so we can out one of our own as a [censored] (and slander a bunch of others in the process).
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PREGAME: Rd 19 vs Adelaide
This. I think his current position is as forward as heāll get, heās a lock in the defensive set up but the press allows him to get up to 50 and occasionally sneak in and be a target or have a shot if his opponent isnāt paying attention. Wouldnāt expect to see him ever playing as a forward.
- PREGAME: Rd 19 vs Adelaide
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PREGAME: Rd 19 vs Adelaide
I think this is the right change for the week, one forced, one based on form. Spargo will more than likely come back in at some point but needs to find some football at vfl level. Donāt get attached to Tommo, Iād think given past selection Petty comes straight back when fit. Current iteration of the forward line (bar Spargo) gets another turn to see how it goes, before Gawndy goes into the mix in a few weeks.
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Farewell Brodie Grundy
I think youāve got to balance whatās in that article with the fact that Tom Browne is one of the [redacted] [redacted] in an industry populated almost exclusively by [redacted] [redacted]. The other salient point is that theyāre all making up this idea that we have to trade him - says who? Bucks is keen to talk all this rubbish up cos how embarrassing would it be for the infallible, incredible all singing all dancing Magpies to be paying $300k of the salary of a player who wins a flag at another club? Oops!
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PREGAME: Rd 19 vs Adelaide
20 goals from Rd18 to GF in 2021 was a fair cameo (incl 2 in the Prelim and 3 in Flag) 30 goals in 2022 (behind only Fritta and Kozzie) 11 in 6 games this year - admittedly 8 in the first 2 games skews that a bit, he got dumped by Rampe after the half time siren in Rd3 and hurt his back which I think set him back for a long time but I think reports of his imminent demise are a little exaggerated to paraphrase.
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PREGAME: Rd 19 vs Adelaide
Used to be (circa mid-2010s) and google tells me there still is, an Aussie bar called Boomerang Bistro. Eating there is probably a waste of your calorie intake given everything else you can eat in Singas but will have the footy on. https://maps.app.goo.gl/GnCYwKGM3tAroLYD6?g_st=ic My take on team selection: Petty out for Tomlinson, surely has a week off at least after getting subbed twice with injury. Would expect given past experience that Petty comes back in when fit (hopefully not before). Spargo v Chandler - can see this going each way, youād think on pure form Chandler gets a go (good vfl praccy apparently, Spargo not doing much) but Spargo is clearly marked best 22 so I can see them giving him another week or two to get back into form. McVee/Rivers into mids, Bowey fwd? Donāt see any of these happening, I think the FD is pretty settled on the back half and wonāt be moving the pieces around too much barring Hibberd coming back and someone making way. Mids - one of Sparrow/Jordan will have to make way for Clarry at some point but probably not this week. Sparrow might become a permanent fwd and Spargo/Chin both miss when that happens. Jordan is vulnerable to going back to sub though given past history, they probably do that. Edit: Forgot my namesake- Taj might be the obvious miss and the other two stay, this got more complicated than I expected when I started.. Fwds - I think apart from the Spargo/Chin shootout the rest stays the same, bar Grundy maybe coming in for JVR (vulnerable due to still learning, BBB still ahead of him in smarts and impact imo). I donāt think all 3 fit in one fwd line or that we can go Gawndy without clogging the fwd 50 too much.
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POSTGAME: Rd 18 vs Brisbane
Keeping Petty on was weird but I donāt think Melksham is best as a sub. The only one youād drop him out of the 22 for now is Fritsch imo, his body work last night was great, plays tall and can kick. Smith worked well as a sub although it was making me nervous ahead of time. Grundy may take either of JVR or BBBs spots, but Iād have those two ahead of him as pure forwards. Although BBB wasnāt as prominent after a good first quarter he still leads and makes space for the others. Chandler or Spargo competing for the same spot, I donāt think ANB or Kozzie are droppable. Forward line continues to improve which has been my big worry, and the Lions game was the biggest pre-finals test. Should just roll the rest of the teams we play pretty comfortably now, hopefully avoid further injuries, get Clarry back with 3-4 games before finals and see how we go.
- GAMEDAY: Rd 18 vs Brisbane
- GAMEDAY: Rd 18 vs Brisbane
- GAMEDAY: Rd 18 vs Brisbane
- PREGAME: Rd 18 vs Brisbane
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PREGAME: Rd 18 vs Brisbane
Winning form is good form, would you rather finish first and have a home final, or scrape into fourth and potentially play Port in Adelaide? You might say it doesnāt matter but I would much prefer to play at home. I donāt think heās being managed I think weāre still trying to make the forward line work. Why manage a best 22 player against a fellow top 4 side? Manage players against Norf or Hawthorn.. plus he didnāt look unfit or slow to me last week, but Gawn did - manage Max if anyone.
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PREGAME: Rd 18 vs Brisbane
My point is they rested players and kept winning, I donāt think they wouldāve rested anyone prior to a top 4 clash had they needed to win to keep a buffer on their top 4 spot. I know your theories and Iām open to them, but Iāll believe it when I see the results, until then it feels a little copey
- PREGAME: Rd 18 vs Brisbane
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PREGAME: Rd 18 vs Brisbane
I think this underrates JVR a bit, heās no lumbering dinosaur. Smith isnāt the answer either, heās kicked 4 goals in 33 games over 6 seasons, admittedly heās been a defender for a lot of those games but heās played forward too and heās not going to morph into Russell Robertson between now and GF day. Its BBB & JVR for mine, Fritsch hopefully back for finals, TMac can fight for a spot if his ankle comes good too but Smith & Schache are only injury coverage from now on for me.
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PREGAME: Rd 18 vs Brisbane
BBB isnāt there to chase or tackle, and heās no contested marking beast. But he had 1 goal last week, had a free 25m out that Sparrow kicked under advantage and hit the post so could easily have had 3 last week. He also leads which is vital to making space for the others. Bring JVR in to play with him, and combined theyāll have Andrews dropping his head as he is wont to do when getting beat.. Schache canāt be picked ahead of either BBB, JVR, TMac in a moon boot, Joel Smith etc etc, heās not AFL standard